AirAsia Black Box Recovered and Successfully Downloaded

Indonesian divers pulled out the cockpit voice recorder from the sunken wreckage of an AirAsia passenger jet on Tuesday, a key step towards determining the cause of the crash that killed all 162 people aboard.

Air-crash investigators said they successfully downloaded data from the flight data recorder of AirAsia Flight 8501 on Tuesday, paving the way to begin data analysis of what led to the Dec. 28 crash.

“The flight data recorder has been downloaded, and all the data are now safe,” Santoso Sayogo, an air-crash expert with Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, said in an interview.